Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 September 2013 | 5(13): 4734–4742 Western Ghats Special Series Communication ISSN Re-description of Hypselobarbus lithopidos (Teleostei: Online 0974–7907 Cyprinidae), based on its rediscovery from the Western Ghats, Print 0974–7893 India, with notes on H. thomassi OPEN ACCESS J.D. Marcus Knight 1, Ashwin Rai 2 & Ronald K.P. D’souza 3 1 Flat L, Sri Balaji Apartments, 7th Main Road, Dhandeeswaram, Velachery, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600042, India 2 Department of Fisheries Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Yekkur, Mangalore, Karnataka 575002, India 3 Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri, Manglore, Karnataka 574199, India 1
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[email protected] Abstract: In recent times, though the genus Hypselobarbus has been studied substantially, the identities of individual species remain ambiguous. Hypselobarbus lithopidos has been assessed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species with a speculation that it could possibly be extinct as there has not been any validated record of this species since 1941 from its known range. In this work we report a population of this species from its type locality and re-describe this little known species to clear any taxonomic ambiguity that surrounds the identity of this species. We also attempt to clear the taxonomic ambiguity that surrounds the identity of the Critically Endangered H. thomassi with fresh collections from the type locality. Keywords: Barbus, Critically Endangered, Extinct, Gonoproktopterus, large barbs, pulchellus, South Canara, Wallacean shortfall. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3602.4734-42 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:75112E0D-333F-4A1D-AD52-1F942923033F Editor: Anonymity requested.